Régnier pot
Régnier Pot (* probably 1342; † shortly before July 1432) was a knight from the Pot family and one of the most important advisers to the Duke of Burgundy . He was the son of Guillaume Pot († before 1390), Seigneur de la Prugne , and his first wife Blanche de La Trémoille, a daughter of Guy IV. De La Trémoille, Seigneur de Vouhec ( La Trémoille house ).
Régnier Pot himself belonged to the knighthood (Chevalier), was also Seigneur de la Prugne as heir to his father, as well as Seigneur de La Roche-Nolay from September 15, 1403 , which he had bought for 4000 Écu d'or . He was chamberlain and cupbearer (échanson) Duke Philip and chairman of the ducal council. In addition, he was governor of the Dauphiné (1409-1414) and Languedoc (1411-1412), captain of Parthenay (1417), and ambassador to Hungary. As one of the closest confidants of Philip the Good , he became one of the founding knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1430 .
He married Catarina d'Anguissola on November 29, 1392 in Vincennes , who had come to France to accompany Valentina Visconti , the wife of the Duke of Orléans . The only child of this marriage was Jacques Pot († 1458).
literature
- Raphael de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques (Kieler Werkstücke / D; Vol. 3). Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 , pp. 4-6.
- Jean Favier : Keyword “pot”. In: Ders .: Dictionnaire de la France médiévale . Fayard, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-213-03139-8 .
- Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European family tables . Family Tables on the History of European States, Vol. 15 . Stargartd-Verlag, Berlin 1993, plate 144 ff.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pot, Régnier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Adviser to the Duke of Burgundy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1342 |
| DATE OF DEATH | before July 1432 |